The Increase and Decrease of Human Reproduction (A Comparative Study in Ja'fari and Hanafi Jurisprudence)

Prevention, organization, and control of childbearing in order to reduce the population, with the belief that population growth causes poverty, destitution, and many difficulties such as deprivation of health, educational, and upbringing services for the people of the society, has been considered for a long time and has been at the top of economic priorities and planning and has been seriously pursued and followed up, so that supporters of reducing childbearing consider it the only solution to overcome livelihood and economic difficulties to prevent and reduce the increase of the human race, and in practice it has been on the agenda of many governments. As a result of the propaganda and dissemination of such views, many people today voluntarily take action to control childbearing by using various methods to prevent fertility. The main reason for the desire and interest of families is the preference for childbearing for the stability of the material and living situation, which is thought to lead to limiting the reproduction of the generation. From a religious and Quranic perspective, controlling childbearing under the pretext of possible livelihood and economic difficulties is unacceptable and forbidden. In the religion of Islam, the teachings There is an emphasis on marriage and procreation in the Islamic Ummah, which all Muslim Ummah members are called upon and encouraged to do. Muslim scholars unanimously consider stopping and delaying fertility without the need for false excuses such as poverty, hardship, and insufficient resources to be ignorant, pessimistic, and contrary to reality.